The species has been named Homo bodoensis and it is thought that they lived during the Middle Pleistocene era.... Researchers believe they are a direct ancestor of modern humans.... The name bodoensis comes from a skull found in Bodo D’ar in Ethiopia. According to experts, this is a crucial period in history as it also saw the rise of our own species( Homo sapiens) in Africa, and our close relatives the Neanderthals( Homo neanderthalensis) in Europe. But this period is also somewhat of a grey

Can China’s archeologists redefine what it means to be Chinese?... The remainder appear to be more closely related to a local resident population that was already established in Britain.... By the mid-800s, the idea of an Anglo-Saxon realm unified under a single monarch had become a reality that would survive until the Norman conquest two centuries later. Story continues below advertisementDr....